Alec Baldwin drops out of "Rock of Ages"

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The high-profile cast of "Rock of Ages" is down one star. Alec Baldwin has fallen out of the adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, sources said.

Baldwin was to have played Dennis Dupree, the owner of the Bourbon Room, the Sunset Boulevard nightclub at the center of the movie. He told New York magazine in March that he was taking singing lessons for the role. "You have to," he said. "You have to take it seriously."